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One of the salient themes in Super Bowl ads was bringing manufacturing back to America. A lesson for Apple?

What better way to recover from the halftime show? More ads that continued to offer little in the way of originality of either strategy or execution. On the other hand, we had Clint Eastwood advertising Chrysler and Detroit.

Samsung's Super Bowl ad--for the Galaxy Note--claims that this is the product that can finally stop Apple fanboys from having to stand in line, waiting for Apple's latest.

Which tech company had the best first half ad in the Super Bowl? Here's a detailed analysis, written as it happened.

Sorry Steve, it's not post-PC, it's PC-plus, says IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell.

In an attempt to suggest that Chevy Volt's technology is more sophisticated than anything in the galaxy, Chevy's Super Bowl ad features aliens who don't just admire the Volt's advanced design.

Women around the world, fed up with Facebook's policy of not allowing breast-feeding pictures, are staging protests at Facebook offices and using Facebook to coordinate those efforts.

How many people will prefer watching 5 hours of model Adriana Lima on YouTube moving very, very slowly to the New York Giants defense moving very, very quickly? Or might people do both?

No, they won't, like Tom Brady, be viewing an illegal streaming site. Instead, Coke is using social media and the Web in order to have its polar bears react to the game as it's in progress.

You'll be drooling over the nonstop concept displays and projections in this video by the famous glassmaker.

In its Super Bowl spot, Doritos introduces Suzie, a cell phone personal helper with something of a temper.

CNET reviews the 2012 Jetta GLI, a car that gets back what Volkswagen out of the Jetta when it launched the 2011 update.

A woman allegedly claims that her daughter knows Mark Zuckerberg and happens to have been given $1 million of Facebook stock. She then allegedly tries to sell that stock.

The big Apple launch event was made for Steve Jobs. But now that he's not around, should Apple think of a different, more modern way of launching its products?

Silicon Valley startup Saygent crunches survey data and finds that picks for the big game may differ by political affiliation.

In an interestingly confident mix-up, the New York Giants' Web site not only announces that the team has already won, but offers winners' memorabilia for sale.

Monster may have gone too far with the bling factor, but its new Earth Wind & Fire Gratitude in-ear headphones sound sweet.

CNET Executive Editor David Carnoy looks at Sony's Playstation Vita through Apple goggles.

The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the winners of last year's contest for the best visualizations in science and engineering.

The death of Micron Technology's CEO during a solo flight in a hard-to-handle aircraft symbolizes the risky memory chip market that is the company's bread and butter.